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Remote Pacific islands escaped the coronavirus this year. It devastated their economies anyway.


Remote Pacific islands escaped the coronavirus this year. It devastated their economies anyway.
Adam Taylor
The seat of government in Melekeok, Palau, on June 20, 2009. (Itsuo Inouye/AP)
You might expect the incoming president of one of the only countries with no recorded coronavirus cases to see cause for optimism.
But Palau’s president-elect, Surangel Whipps Jr., set to take office next month, said that, in fact, the pandemic has wreaked havoc on his shores. “You could say our world has been turned upside down,” he told The Washington Post.
“Last year at this time, Palau was looking toward a growing economy and stability,” he said, adding that the tiny island nation had been planning to host the Our Ocean conference on international marine conservation. ....

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